STIPE MIOCIC RETAINED his UFC heavyweight title the previous evening in the place where he grew up of Cleveland, yet the feature session at UFC 203 was dominated by the blended hand to hand fighting introduction of Phil 'CM Punk' Brooks. Regardless of having no past MMA experience, the 37-year-old previous expert wrestling star made his UFC bow on the previous evening's primary card subsequent to leaving the WWE in 2014.
His welterweight session against Mickey Gall was an uneven undertaking, of course, with Punk charging in too energetically which permitted Gall to execute a twofold leg takedown easily.
The 24-year-old then mauled the debutant on the ground, separating him with punches and elbows before constraining Punk to tap to a back exposed stifle following two minutes and 14 seconds.
A short time later, Gall — who took his expert record to 3-0 — got out Sage Northcutt, while CM Punk demanded there were no second thoughts about his choice to go up against such a sizeable test.
"In life, you pull out all the stops or you go home," said the Chicago local. "This was one serious mountain to attempt and climb yet I'm not going to stop. This doesn't mean I'm going to stop. I will be back, trust it or not. I know there's a great deal of skeptics however life's about tumbling down and getting up."
In the headliner, Stipe Miocic mobilized after a troublesome begin to improve of Alistair Overeem taking after an exciting four-and-a-half minutes, as he effectively got through his first barrier of the UFC heavyweight title.
Miocic secured the knockout by means of fierce ground-and-pound at the 4:27 sign of the opening casing, however the main residence saint needed to withstand an early surge.
In the wake of dropping Miocic with a straight left, Overeem jumped and secured a guillotine. The champion in the long run broke free yet the challenger asserted a short time later that Miocic tapped.
Overeem said: "I accept when I punched him and he went down, I tailed him and got him in a guillotine gag, and I obviously felt a tap. The ref didn't see it, the ref didn't bounce in, so the battle proceeded. As I would see it he tapped."Elsewhere on the principle card, previous heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum — who Miocic ousted not long ago — ricocheted back by conquering Travis Browne for the second time. Urijah Faber was steamed at Jimmie Rivera, while Jessica Andrade looked amazing as she ceased Scotland's Joanne Calderwood.
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